diff --git a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
index 974164e8c..3a7327ce7 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ jenkins_base_environment_variables:
   - NAME: 'PAGER_NOTIFY'
     VALUE: '{{ PAGER_NOTIFY }}'
 
+JENKINS_DATA_ENGINEERING_NODE_VERSION: '24'
+
 JENKINS_DATA_ENGINEERING_EXTRA_PKGS:
   - gettext
   - pkg-config
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/tasks/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/tasks/main.yml
index 2312fb663..e36d011e7 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/tasks/main.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,37 @@
   hostname:
     name: "{{ jenkins_host_name }}"
 
+- name: Install the gpg key for Node.js
+  apt_key:
+    url: "https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key"
+    state: present
+  tags:
+    - jenkins
+
+- name: Install the Node.js repo
+  apt_repository:
+    repo: "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_{{ JENKINS_DATA_ENGINEERING_NODE_VERSION }}.x nodistro main"
+    state: present
+    update_cache: yes
+  register: add_nodesource_repo
+  until: add_nodesource_repo is success
+  retries: 10
+  delay: 5
+  tags:
+    - jenkins
+
+- name: Install Node.js
+  apt:
+    name: nodejs
+    state: present
+    update_cache: yes
+  register: install_nodejs
+  until: install_nodejs is success
+  retries: 10
+  delay: 5
+  tags:
+    - jenkins
+
 - name: install jenkins analytics extra system packages
   apt:
     pkg={{ item }} state=present update_cache=yes